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Today we start with the Yankees who, no matter what now, it's 12 games to go.

They're five games back in the division.

I was always holding out belief that the Yankees would win the division from Toronto, especially with their soft schedule here. And look, the Yankees could go 11 and 1 in the final 12 and make things interesting. But the math would say the division likely out of reach right now. Also, they don't have the tiebreaker. So it's really six games with 12 games to go. the Yankees no matter what what, have made their road to the World Series, which that's the goal, getting back to winning a world series, far more difficult than it was a year ago. Yeah, I would agree with that. I think when you look at the 162 game season, you know, a lot of people say, that doesn't really matter, get in, just take your chance, It's random. And, you know, you have starting pitching and you have a chance to win and anything can happen, as we've seen a million times here. But this is a good example of how when you don't do your job to the fullest extent, you complicate the path here. And that's all there is to it. Yanks aren't going to win the division, barring something wacky, as you said.

Now, I do think, and I really like this, I think the Yankees very quietly, because we've been Uber focused on the Mets and what's happening with them. I think the Yankees have quietly shown some grit the last month or so. And when you get, whether it's Boston, and we'll go through all the scenarios obviously

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And for the Yankees, even though the expectations may have been lowered a little bit after losing Soto, they still had a great offseason. Everybody loved the plan B. To me, losing to the Toronto Blue Jays, regardless of where anybody thought the expectation were, that's just not good enough, especially a team that has punked them. The managers said it.

I mean, head to head, we know what the Blue Jays did.

The managers talked about how bad the Yan head to head, we know what the Blue Jays did.

The managers talked about how bad the Yankees are. The freaking broadcasters, multiple broadcasters have said it, and the Yankees let them get away with winning that division without really, really challenging them. They got it down to three games. I think it was the close that they've got in the last month or so. But they didn't even really challenge them.

And that just makes a difficult path.

And to me, that's not acceptable.

Now, it doesn't mean that the Yankees can't beat them in the postseason. As a matter of fact, I would bet that the Yankees would beat them head-to-head in the postseason. I just think the Yankees are better. But they should have been better in the division. The Yankees, the Mets, they're held to the highs of expectations, especially the Yankees.

They got to go out there and win the division, so that's already an X against them, obviously getting in as the primary goal year. But man, last year you saw what the Yankees could do when they had that by and then went out there and beat the Royals and beat the Guardians. It is a much, much more difficult path. That is something that really didn't have to happen because the Yankees should have been better than that. Well, I don't know about that. I mean, there's the Yankee standard and then there's the standard that I think sometimes gets a little twisted. And I'm going to give you the standard that I think the Yankees deserve the benefit of the doubt here, which I think a lot of people have glossed over. Gary Cole hasn't thrown a pitch this season, and Louis Heel, who was the reigning rookie of the year last year, missed basically 75% of the season, and he's really just

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